Platforma Festival 2025
Our 8th Platforma Festival will take place in October across the East of England, co-produced with local artists and organisations and also featuring touring work from across the country.
13 events found.
Past Event
Events for 17 October, 2025
All Day
Bridging Landscapes II
Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): Following its successful run at French Riviera Gallery in London and the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, Bridging Landscapes II comes to Peterborough Museum - a group exhibition curated by Aisha Zia.
Gateway Film Festival Programme
Platforma 2025 (Peterborough): Gateway Film Festival presents a series of free screenings of shorts and feature films, in partnership with 62 Gladstone Street.
Gaza Remains The Story
Platforma 2025 (Diss): An exhibition from the Palestine Museum that strives to inform, educate, and narrate stories of historical locations and cultural practices in Gaza, providing a glimpse into Gaza’s arts, aspirations, and uniqueness—what remains of it in these harsh times.
Confluence
Platforma 2025 (Norwich): An exhibition by Shathy Bano exploring cultural influence, identity and belonging in the community.
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Back To Where We Came From
Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): An installation made by Emanuela Cusin & Sarah Wood in response to St Peter’s, Cambridge – an ancient church whose history is rooted in the idea of sanctuary.
Refugees Welcome Here
Platforma 2025 (Cambridge): A show bringing together the work of studio artists based at Cambridge Artworks and refugees in Cambridge.
Ongoing
Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay
Platforma 2025 (Letchworth): Broadway Gallery presents a new exhibition featuring the work of Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan.
Ghafar Tajmohammad: If you throw a stone in the crowd, someone’s going to get hurt
Platforma 2025 (Colchester): Explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s thought-provoking collection of paintings and hand-woven rugs, called kilims, reflecting on conflict, home, and the search for hope and resilience.
Maria Proshkovska: Making Oddkin
Platforma 2025 (Norwich) : An interdisciplinary project resented as two parallel exhibitions: at OUTPOST Gallery in Norwich, UK and at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Home from Home Poetry Workshop
Platforma 2025 (Ipswich): Join local writer Sue Wallace-Shaddad for a poetry workshop reflecting on the challenges of belonging and consider what makes us who we are, and how our identities are influenced by others.
MAS(S)
Platforma 2025 (Great Yarmouth): New work created by artists Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Lomond Campbell, exploring migration, refugees, war and loss through the human voice.
No Direction Home x Platforma
Platforma (Colchester): The No Direction Home stand-up comedy collective comes to East Bergholt for one night only!
